Tag: Fashion Design
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Instructor Spotlight: Susanna Moyer
Susanna Moyer is a global leader in the fashion industry as well as an educator. She started her fashion design career in Paris working for Christian Dior then leading the design team at Olivier Lapidus. She returned to the US where she founded her namesake brand selling to Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom’s and 250 specialty stores.…
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Instructor Spotlight: Mary Capozzi
Mary Capozzi has been an instructor at FIT for over 8 years. During her 17 years of experience in the fashion industry, Prof. Capozzi designed children’s clothing, swimwear, and denim. She also has a passion for art, particularly fashion illustration and digital illustration. Prof. Capozzi teaches the following FIT Precollege Classes: HSX 095 Costume & Couture Rendering Teaching…
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Precollege Blogger Kaela’s Back!
Hi Everyone! My name is Kaela Buggy. I am a high school junior living in a small Connecticut suburb just outside of New York. I have had the privilege to blog for FIT Precollege in past semesters, so it’s so nice to be back! If you want to know an extensive history of my fashion…
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The Importance of Construction in Design
Hi Everyone! I hope you all have had a great past week! As I turned in my first project (as mentioned in last week’s post), I began to think about how I have grown since my interest in fashion really began. In the beginning, most of my interest was geared toward the design aspect of…
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Experience Outside of the Classroom
Hi Everyone! I hope you have had a great past week and a lovely holiday weekend (if you celebrated) full of pastel colors and sweet treats! Even though FIT did not hold precollege classes this past weekend, because they were on break, that did not stop me from practicing the skills that I have learned…
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Same Shirt, Different Day: A Conversation With Taylor Orsino
Taylor Orsino, from Staten Island, was determined to leave her mark on her school’s homecoming. She decided to make a goal of hers to design the homecoming tee-shirts. Her art career began when her school’s art teacher told her about a class she taught at a private studio, “she handed me fliers for the class, and from…